That is when you realize it. That you are an adult, when you start considering it. Going shopping and looking at kitchen appliances. Waiting for them to be on sale.
5:00 because they are inconvenient to use for most family's, the time it takes to get it out, set it up, use it, take it apart, and clean it you are already done manually peeling them, I had one for apples when I needed to peel a lot, ,it's nice to use, but took longer than just doing it by hand.
Toast enthusiast here. The thing about bread is that it's cooked in loafs until it is soft. Toast is one or two slices cut from that loaf to be cooked for a little longer so you get a nice crispy texture. In addition, using toasted bread for some sandwiches keeps the bread from becoming soggy.
@@formdusktilldeath Look up the Maillard reaction. Past about 270F a chemical reaction occurs which is why stuff like casseroles, lasagna, anything baked in the oven for a long enough time tastes better. Also, if you guys get worked up over this kind of stuff may I recommend the video about the step saving kitchen from the US National Archives YT channel. Yes really, they have their own UA-cam channel.
The butter bell probably disappeared due to when butter is properly salted it will last up to a year in an enclosed butter dish. This allows you to have soft butter for spreading, without the extra steps.
Hand crank rotary peelers are still made, they are just marketed for apples. Those with a removable core blade can be used for peeling potatoes as well.
Hi Fenn, The pullout stove is an extreme fire hazard, so that's why it got canned, and the top shelf oven got canned because lifting stuff out of there that waights 10kg+ is prone to tip over onto you, it is beautifull but dangerous. The "two way opening fridge" has the problem that, if you don'r close it fully, the door falls of when you try opening it the other way~ The Spinni Toaster is once more a fire hazard and you can injure your self easily. so no : no nice stuff, because "looks nice easy to injure your self"
@NunamedDragon "Kids these days" has been going since forever, old timer. Earliest written record of it is Socrates complaining that kids these days are reading scrolls not just memorizing things.
Sadly, the fridges lost a lot of those innovations due to safety: you can't have a latching fridge door because of the danger of children getting trapped inside (mostly when being put out on the curb for trash)
The engineering of kitchens went from "How do we make this better for our customers?" to "What's the minimum effort we can put in to make sure we have something to sell in 5 years?"
Exactly. I've heard dozens of times the supposed value of planned obsolescence as a business practice, but all those arguments fly in the face of just how inefficient, pointlessly over-complicated, and MASSIVELY wasteful everything about the practice is.
Yeah, it is extremely wasteful, but unfortunately, the big corporations don't care because they need to keep selling you the same stuff over and over. There was a time when things were built to last, but that time is now long gone because of greed.
So yeah you said it at the end, they purposefully make stuff not to last anymore so that they can sell more of it. Afterall, if everyone has a fridge that lasts 20+ years, then no needs to buy a fridge anymore. As for your point about why it was so heavy, this stuff was made to last, it was the generation of "let's invent and do our best possible." It was always made to last with heavy and strong materials. Lead, Steel, etc. It's why some old videos (and hte infamous example of Indiana Jones) using their refrigerator as a shield against nuclear attacks, cause it was just that durable and the lead shielding would help against radiation. That being said, i love our little fox getting so hyped up about all this kitchen and housewife stuff. It's so adorable and cute.
Children. Moat of this appliance stuff was ended because kids. A lot of the neat features like the two fridge door handles, step fridge, peak a boo fridge, and hinged shelves all break quickly in the presence of children. Same goes with many standard appliance choices
I think my absolute favorite old kitchen gadget/appliance has to be the Honeywell 316 Kitchen Computer. Offered for $10,000 in 1969 (around $83,000 now) by Neiman Marcus department stores, it was the first time a computer had ever been offered as a regular consumer product. Designed to help store recipes and balance family budgets, it was little more than a rebrand of the pedestal version of the Model 316 with a few recipes programmed from the factory and the writing surface marketed as a built-in cutting board. You could buy extra recipe packs for it, but programming it required a special two-week course, as it used the typical mainframe binary light display and manual switch entry - there was no graphical or even text interface, nor a keyboard. None were sold.
I know the funniest toaster. I have. It's probably 70 years old and the best part is yeah, it does work, but the funny part is the leveraged stuck some once in a while, so it's kinda funny. But it's literally a piece of Chrome. And yes, and yes, the cord's not the same as at the moment The giant piece on the cord's missing.
My grandmother had many of those appliances but she was entertaining in the house more then we do today. Now we go out to restaurants, while they seemed to entertain in the home a lot more. She was a stay a home mom as well not out working, but she did all the food ordering, banking, trip planning etc while my grandfather was at the office. If she needed something to make it easier it was gotten after she had researched it.
On rotisseries: Some of the larger countertop toaster ovens have rotisserie setups built into them. I need to look into getting a modern butter bell; I know they still make them. It would be for something to spread on my TOAST!
you wanna know why that tiny kitchen is 500 pounds? there's like a 90% chance the refrigerator is led lined. probably a few other parts too. and that's honestly what killed a lot of these. All the moving parts that gave them their cool features were points of failure that could cause them to break in potentially dangerous ways.
@@rolandswift4311 fridge wouldn't have been lead lined, though possibly lead in the silver accents. The weight likely comes from it being mostly made of ceramic coated cast iron.
To play the devil's Avakate. From an engineering standpoint, the more complex an appliance is, the more likely it is to brake. Moving parts are most at risk of malefaction. The main reason appliances were so heavy back then, they were made out of cast-iron or lead.
Just since it took me a second to figure out what you meant, I wanted to correct a couple of the terms you used; "play Devil's _advocate"_ "more likely it is to _break"_ & "risk of _malfunction"_ (Also wanted to way that I've always really liked the Khumat art by Des Hanley from the old D&D 3.5 Miniatures Handbook that you're using as an avatar)
Honestly, the only thing missing to make this video even better is for you to present each item witha 3d rotation playing the first few seconds from the song "Down Queens Boulevard". his was hilarious.
It was, but with a little more engineering, especially with today's materials, this could easily be brought back. To bad no company will ever spend any time or money on development on it. Now it's just the lazy "let's slap a tablet on it" mentality. 😢
@@winterhawkshadow Well I'm sure that metal plate would not be featured with today's design language. It will ether be stone/wood, or plastic tile like an average kitchen worktop. That should be safe, right? OOH, OOH and add a brush to it, so small crap like keys/coins you leave on top by accident don't drop behind the burners and get lost forever.
@@bigernbladesmith The problem is not in materials. A pile of flammabales left next to the fire is the problem. This the same hazard as modern integrated cooking surfaces.
I prefer to prep everything before I turn on any heat sources other than the oven, so I’m not scrambling to cut things. I keep my knives on a magnet strip by my cutting board with the trash can immediately to the side below the counter, I can get a lot done pretty quickly using stainless steel bowls, deli containers, ramekins depending on the amount of ingredients I’m preparing, and cleanup is easy
A home I used to live in had a pull-out 4 burner stove top and eye-level dual oven with a flip-up vent that was like the Fabulous 400 but was made by Frigidaire back in the 60's-70's. It didn't have the cutting board at the front but was a rock solid unit that required a cabinet under it to sustain the weight unless the wall frame was strong enough to hold it on its own. It was ultimately removed and replaced by a normal oven because it started to have electrical issues.
As an appliance repair tech at one point in my life, I have had to repair a slide out burner and oven setup. Those are not fun to work on. Also, the drawback to that system and why it's not in use is because of the popularity of gas stoves. Electric stoves have different cooking properties over gas stoves.
I remember the fridge foot pedal, it was there because old fridges dont have defrosting cycle and were air sealed. The pedal was there to overcome the negative pressure so you dont rip out the handle. In summer if you open that fridge to take something out and then put it back in. The pressure difference was so great even whit the pedal you must interrupt the door seal to let air in, or wait a minute.
Growing up, we always had room temp butter because mom just left it on a dish on the counter. Never worried about it going bad because we used it up so damn fast, mostly used up by the perfect toast out of our Sunbeam Radiant Control toaster. It was years later that I even realized that butter can go bad. As for the snazzy appliances, a foot operated fridge door seems useful but you still need your hands to actually move the door out of your way. And even if you need both hands to put something away, it's not like leaving the fridge open for an extra 30 seconds is going to change anything. The drawer style stove with the put-away burners? Think about that concept for a minute. It's one more point of failure. Yes, you can hideaway the cooktop... or just have a cover for it. Now the entire top-side is usable counterspace. The reality is, much of these examples were more gimmick than anything. This stuff hit the market and not enough people cared for manufactures to continue. Modern appliances are far more efficient than vintage. Ask me all about my mom's circa 1932 Gaffers & Sattler stove. It legit took an extra 10 minutes to bake a cake according to directions. Took 3 or 4 more minutes to boil a ~quart of water. It was tiny; you could have one large pasta pot on a rear burner and a medium saucepan in front. The other two burners were basically useless. Now imagine cooking an entire Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner on that beautiful beast. This damn thing had a manual pilot light for igniting the burners! You turned on the gas for the burner you want and pressed a button to FLAMETHROWER fire at all four burners. We woke up several times to find the pilot light had gone out, natural gas slowly filling the house. Neat! I loved that stove, it was awesome. _I would never use it again._ Remember kids, older doesn't automatically equal better.
There used to be a toaster that would automatically toast your toast to the perfect doneness each time due to a sensor in the toaster you just needed to ajust it once then all you had to do is put toast in it no button pushing required.
"I don't believe in toasters" There are many reasons for toasters for bread alone, toasting the bread changes the flavor and makes it crunchy, try having regular bread dipped in egg yolk vs toast, they are night and day difference. Also other things like bagles, frozen waffles, french toast sticks, pop tarts, etc. The primary reason to toasting something is adding a crunch which changes the mouth feel of the food, I've done this with my sandwhich bread/rolls, I would put them in the oven for a few mins and they would come out as if they were freshly baked and crunchy, the flavor changes depending on if it's crunchy or soft.
6:22 My sister says I am superfluous. She just walked up to me one day and said, "Jacob you are so superfluous." I asked her what that ment and she said "I'm not going to tell you." 😅 😂
We had a stove with the burners on a pull-out shelf, and it was annoying, because you had to go through the kitchen to get to the family room and most of the bedrooms, and if the shelf was out, when mom was canning, you had to squeeze past it.
The city I live in has some old stove/washer/dryer stores that were built in the 1870's & up in the backside of the store they have many of these old kinds of appliances. That mini stove refrigerator thing had a really poor description- it doesn't weigh 500 Lbs, it weighs 108 Lbs if you have everything attached. The heaviest part (the fridge+ compressor motor) is 46 Lbs by itself. Fridge Backplate (Freon Radiator in disguise) 38 Lbs Burner plate & Cast Iron coils 12 Lbs Burner undercarriage 4 Lbs Leg assembly 8 Lbs They were (poorly) comparing it to a conventional refrigerator/freezer which usually weighed around 500-800 Lbs at the time. Most guys wold have no issue moving this, & most women of the time wouldn't either if disassembled. Nowadays it be easier for both given all the gym memberships. The best toasters were always Sunbeam. They spent the few extra cents to add in a infrared receiver that only saw the reflected light from the bread, not the heating elements & so they could cook any bread to perfection- not based on time, like all modern toasters, but based on the light reflected. Even refrigerated or straight out of the freezer bread sill came out as perfect toast every time.
Peeler. 1) cleaning time 2) counter spaces 3) my mother in law could do that with a pairing knife in bearly the same time 4) the hand peeler ... Yeah I'm not getting that potato that fast... But close. 5) when the auto jams (and it can) its a pain to fix. The manual peeler.... Tap it again the side of the sink to get rhe tiny thing thats in the hinge out
A lot of these are most likely due to how expensive it'd be to make these and how easy they would be to break. The more complex you amke something, the more components are involved which means there are points of failure for them. It's the reason we don't see cars that open up, it's the reason we don't see those weird headlights that move up and down, it's the reason convertibles are expensive, etc. Stuff breaks and people were tired of fixing them if they fixed them at all.
A combination of 3 of the 4 fridges would be perfect for me: to see the food without losing the cold + open on both sides and the plate that rotates to take the food from the bottom. Whatever the price, I'll take it if someone offers me a functional one. But I think that in Japan they already have openings on both sides for fridges.
The easiest way to answer why kitchen appliances, and many other appliances, have gotten less innovative is mass production, and trying to extract the most money with the least amount of effort.
1:33 - Here I am thinking that EA Sports was the origin of the "taking awesome features away and then bring them back a decade later (not as good as before) claiming they're new...", but apparently appliances mastered this awful magic so long ago
"what happened to kitchens?" enough people or a few people with pollical pull found a way to hurt their self and/or burn down their house so safety measures were put in which took out everything Feenryn this is cool
@@yumri4 that and to make life for more restrictive for the average joes to control their lives (like Obama when he went after wood ovens for his climate change grift).
I remember seeing the video of the fridge and they were saying it was only like $800 when they forgot about inflation and how it would be like $9,000 today.
I barely use my microwave anymore. Mostly just to defrost meat and the very occasional TV dinner. Otherwise I'd rather put everything in the oven even though it takes longer.
@@PewKittens well we talking early 1920, casting was cheaper then rolled steel and that is a oven not a fridge. Just the compressor of early fridges was that big. Also i find some photos with them open and its a oven for sure. Only around 1950-60 a thin enameled emerges. Cast iron, copper, aluminum and enameled cast iron were only option.
First time running across this VTuber and gotta say good content aside shes got quite the expressive model, the algorithm did me justice for once. That aside the reason all our stuff has become such garbage that fail basically immediately, is first due to outsourcing and poor quality controls from said outsourcing and second is due to planned obsolescence, many of those products lasted for years or even decades, hell my grandfather still has a fridge from 1947 and it still works perfectly to this day. Suffice to say tho companies realized that if you make products that last you end up selling less products overall and thus go bankrupt, so they opted to build products that only last for X amount of time, often with proprietary parts which makes fixing/restoring them wildly expensive if you even can, thus it is cheaper for the customer to just buy a new unit instead and then the company can mark that up as another sale thus continuing production, I see the logic in said strategy but it doesn't make it any less malicious. Edit: Well... this is awkward she basically mentioned my second point at the end, guess I should've waited before running my mouth my bad.
There can be a shut off switch. I think the biggest problem is when you pull out something above your chest line. You tend to tilt it towards your self. So like 3 degree burns from hot fat or boiling water on your front or spill over the hot coils and get steam burns or even ignite fire. That is why you have racks in industrial settings so you slide them from oven right on the tray.
Fenn, "I'm getting heated over fridges!" Her failing to see the irony of that statement gives her +30 to her adorablness!!
@@Slywit74 I mean, the back coils do get hot as they are where the heat in the fridge goes.
@@jasonkeith2832 and if you dont keep those coils clean, the inside of your fridge will eventually heat up as well....
That is when you realize it. That you are an adult, when you start considering it. Going shopping and looking at kitchen appliances. Waiting for them to be on sale.
@jarek0737 Have you seen the off-sale prices? They are way too high to consider anything more than window shopping if you're on a budget.
Have I ever told you that you have the most infectious enthusiasm
5:00 because they are inconvenient to use for most family's, the time it takes to get it out, set it up, use it, take it apart, and clean it you are already done manually peeling them, I had one for apples when I needed to peel a lot, ,it's nice to use, but took longer than just doing it by hand.
Toast enthusiast here. The thing about bread is that it's cooked in loafs until it is soft. Toast is one or two slices cut from that loaf to be cooked for a little longer so you get a nice crispy texture. In addition, using toasted bread for some sandwiches keeps the bread from becoming soggy.
Also makes the butter melt.
@@shishoka Mmmm. Melty butter
it tastes diffrent, too! It like... caramelises or some sh*t!
@@formdusktilldeath Look up the Maillard reaction. Past about 270F a chemical reaction occurs which is why stuff like casseroles, lasagna, anything baked in the oven for a long enough time tastes better.
Also, if you guys get worked up over this kind of stuff may I recommend the video about the step saving kitchen from the US National Archives YT channel. Yes really, they have their own UA-cam channel.
Yeah, or you know, eating over easy eggs. That soggy feeling of the bread after dipping it totally ruins the experience.
The butter bell probably disappeared due to when butter is properly salted it will last up to a year in an enclosed butter dish. This allows you to have soft butter for spreading, without the extra steps.
Hand crank rotary peelers are still made, they are just marketed for apples. Those with a removable core blade can be used for peeling potatoes as well.
You can still buy butter bells. They're so good, but you have to keep changing the water every couple days.
Fennryn, lady, room temperature butter in my house in Spain is liquid butter xD
Same here for at least half the year.
Hi Fenn,
The pullout stove is an extreme fire hazard, so that's why it got canned,
and the top shelf oven got canned because lifting stuff out of there that waights 10kg+ is prone to tip over onto you,
it is beautifull but dangerous.
The "two way opening fridge" has the problem that, if you don'r close it fully, the door falls of when you try opening it the other way~
The Spinni Toaster is once more a fire hazard and you can injure your self easily.
so no : no nice stuff, because "looks nice easy to injure your self"
Risks come with rewards
Natural selection at its finest.
Common sense stopped being common ins recent memory
@NunamedDragon "Kids these days" has been going since forever, old timer. Earliest written record of it is Socrates complaining that kids these days are reading scrolls not just memorizing things.
@@williamchamberlain2263 stuff was clearly better in "the good old days"
This channel deserves so many more subs! I love the commentary, the enthusiasm, the well animated character. Everything :)
Sadly, the fridges lost a lot of those innovations due to safety: you can't have a latching fridge door because of the danger of children getting trapped inside (mostly when being put out on the curb for trash)
This is also why they took away lawn darts. One idiot kid gets a lawn dirt to the eye and then no one can have any fun anymore lol
The engineering of kitchens went from "How do we make this better for our customers?" to "What's the minimum effort we can put in to make sure we have something to sell in 5 years?"
This.
It all went downhill when they made freezer/refrigerators divided down the middle. So little space.
Exactly. I've heard dozens of times the supposed value of planned obsolescence as a business practice, but all those arguments fly in the face of just how inefficient, pointlessly over-complicated, and MASSIVELY wasteful everything about the practice is.
Yeah, it is extremely wasteful, but unfortunately, the big corporations don't care because they need to keep selling you the same stuff over and over. There was a time when things were built to last, but that time is now long gone because of greed.
So yeah you said it at the end, they purposefully make stuff not to last anymore so that they can sell more of it. Afterall, if everyone has a fridge that lasts 20+ years, then no needs to buy a fridge anymore.
As for your point about why it was so heavy, this stuff was made to last, it was the generation of "let's invent and do our best possible." It was always made to last with heavy and strong materials. Lead, Steel, etc. It's why some old videos (and hte infamous example of Indiana Jones) using their refrigerator as a shield against nuclear attacks, cause it was just that durable and the lead shielding would help against radiation.
That being said, i love our little fox getting so hyped up about all this kitchen and housewife stuff. It's so adorable and cute.
Children. Moat of this appliance stuff was ended because kids. A lot of the neat features like the two fridge door handles, step fridge, peak a boo fridge, and hinged shelves all break quickly in the presence of children. Same goes with many standard appliance choices
Science...math...YES! 😂
quote of the week.
I think my absolute favorite old kitchen gadget/appliance has to be the Honeywell 316 Kitchen Computer. Offered for $10,000 in 1969 (around $83,000 now) by Neiman Marcus department stores, it was the first time a computer had ever been offered as a regular consumer product. Designed to help store recipes and balance family budgets, it was little more than a rebrand of the pedestal version of the Model 316 with a few recipes programmed from the factory and the writing surface marketed as a built-in cutting board. You could buy extra recipe packs for it, but programming it required a special two-week course, as it used the typical mainframe binary light display and manual switch entry - there was no graphical or even text interface, nor a keyboard. None were sold.
I know the funniest toaster. I have. It's probably 70 years old and the best part is yeah, it does work, but the funny part is the leveraged stuck some once in a while, so it's kinda funny. But it's literally a piece of Chrome. And yes, and yes, the cord's not the same as at the moment The giant piece on the cord's missing.
Butter bell blew my mind a bit. Glad we got one.
Not for nothing, a lot of those fridges killed people, specifically kids. The latches keep you from opening it from the inside
Found Fenn from her reacting to old kitchen tech glad we've gone full circle back to old kitchen tech
My grandmother had many of those appliances but she was entertaining in the house more then we do today. Now we go out to restaurants, while they seemed to entertain in the home a lot more. She was a stay a home mom as well not out working, but she did all the food ordering, banking, trip planning etc while my grandfather was at the office. If she needed something to make it easier it was gotten after she had researched it.
On rotisseries: Some of the larger countertop toaster ovens have rotisserie setups built into them.
I need to look into getting a modern butter bell; I know they still make them. It would be for something to spread on my TOAST!
you wanna know why that tiny kitchen is 500 pounds? there's like a 90% chance the refrigerator is led lined. probably a few other parts too.
and that's honestly what killed a lot of these. All the moving parts that gave them their cool features were points of failure that could cause them to break in potentially dangerous ways.
@@rolandswift4311 fridge wouldn't have been lead lined, though possibly lead in the silver accents. The weight likely comes from it being mostly made of ceramic coated cast iron.
To play the devil's Avakate. From an engineering standpoint, the more complex an appliance is, the more likely it is to brake. Moving parts are most at risk of malefaction. The main reason appliances were so heavy back then, they were made out of cast-iron or lead.
Just since it took me a second to figure out what you meant, I wanted to correct a couple of the terms you used; "play Devil's _advocate"_ "more likely it is to _break"_ & "risk of _malfunction"_
(Also wanted to way that I've always really liked the Khumat art by Des Hanley from the old D&D 3.5 Miniatures Handbook that you're using as an avatar)
Awesome video! And a very timely portion of good mood on Monday 😊
When she says “I don’t like toast, toast ain’t my thing” why does she sound like a mob boss specifically in support of bread?!
Honestly, the only thing missing to make this video even better is for you to present each item witha 3d rotation playing the first few seconds from the song "Down Queens Boulevard". his was hilarious.
The slide out burner cutting board stove was found to be a fire hazard I believe.
It was, but with a little more engineering, especially with today's materials, this could easily be brought back. To bad no company will ever spend any time or money on development on it. Now it's just the lazy "let's slap a tablet on it" mentality. 😢
Yeah with the electric burners it is, but with modern induction stoves, this would be BRILLIANT!
@@DaRush-The_Soviet_Gamer unless there's metal too close to the surface of the induction plate when it is slid back inside.
@@winterhawkshadow Well I'm sure that metal plate would not be featured with today's design language. It will ether be stone/wood, or plastic tile like an average kitchen worktop. That should be safe, right? OOH, OOH and add a brush to it, so small crap like keys/coins you leave on top by accident don't drop behind the burners and get lost forever.
@@bigernbladesmith The problem is not in materials. A pile of flammabales left next to the fire is the problem. This the same hazard as modern integrated cooking surfaces.
I want a couple of those vintage fridges. Sadly restored ones are tens of thousands. Even beat up ones are spendy.
Love your energy Fennryn, stay precious
My favorite one was the cutting board stove. So practical and so simple.
I prefer to prep everything before I turn on any heat sources other than the oven, so I’m not scrambling to cut things. I keep my knives on a magnet strip by my cutting board with the trash can immediately to the side below the counter, I can get a lot done pretty quickly using stainless steel bowls, deli containers, ramekins depending on the amount of ingredients I’m preparing, and cleanup is easy
On the shelves that swivel out they could easily add a small “food fence” to keep them on the layer
A home I used to live in had a pull-out 4 burner stove top and eye-level dual oven with a flip-up vent that was like the Fabulous 400 but was made by Frigidaire back in the 60's-70's. It didn't have the cutting board at the front but was a rock solid unit that required a cabinet under it to sustain the weight unless the wall frame was strong enough to hold it on its own. It was ultimately removed and replaced by a normal oven because it started to have electrical issues.
Hears an idea... Create a company that re-introduces these ideas in a safe way.
Fenn is uncle roger approved for her take on butter
I love how when she’s really enthused about something her voice gets deeper 😂
Yay more Fenn kitchen vids! Fenn nerding out and being passionate about old kitchen stuff is so fun to watch lmao
Holy cow, I love the tracking on your model. It really captures your passion in this!
I could listen to Fenn say cookie for hours
The variety of your content is awe inspiring
As an appliance repair tech at one point in my life, I have had to repair a slide out burner and oven setup. Those are not fun to work on. Also, the drawback to that system and why it's not in use is because of the popularity of gas stoves. Electric stoves have different cooking properties over gas stoves.
You can find a lot of this stuff at Estate sales. It usually goes for fairly cheap too.
2:44
I forget the terms but I know the science.
My aunt and uncle has one of those pull-out stoves. Kind of a fire hazard TBH, but you could make them a lot safer today with induction burners.
Microwaves save on energy and times, especially for reheating things. Only think you can't reheat is fish. Toast is for taste and texture thing.
Now I have to find these potato peeler and hopefully those fridges the classic ones obviously
I remember the fridge foot pedal, it was there because old fridges dont have defrosting cycle and were air sealed. The pedal was there to overcome the negative pressure so you dont rip out the handle. In summer if you open that fridge to take something out and then put it back in. The pressure difference was so great even whit the pedal you must interrupt the door seal to let air in, or wait a minute.
Who gave her my coffee? she is bouncing off the walls.
Is it me or is the way she says butter super cute.
Simple fix for the rear of tray access problem: guardrail.
Yea i have seen those, but you still get into problem of putting there something too tall.
Growing up, we always had room temp butter because mom just left it on a dish on the counter. Never worried about it going bad because we used it up so damn fast, mostly used up by the perfect toast out of our Sunbeam Radiant Control toaster. It was years later that I even realized that butter can go bad.
As for the snazzy appliances, a foot operated fridge door seems useful but you still need your hands to actually move the door out of your way. And even if you need both hands to put something away, it's not like leaving the fridge open for an extra 30 seconds is going to change anything.
The drawer style stove with the put-away burners? Think about that concept for a minute. It's one more point of failure. Yes, you can hideaway the cooktop... or just have a cover for it. Now the entire top-side is usable counterspace.
The reality is, much of these examples were more gimmick than anything. This stuff hit the market and not enough people cared for manufactures to continue. Modern appliances are far more efficient than vintage. Ask me all about my mom's circa 1932 Gaffers & Sattler stove. It legit took an extra 10 minutes to bake a cake according to directions. Took 3 or 4 more minutes to boil a ~quart of water. It was tiny; you could have one large pasta pot on a rear burner and a medium saucepan in front. The other two burners were basically useless. Now imagine cooking an entire Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner on that beautiful beast. This damn thing had a manual pilot light for igniting the burners! You turned on the gas for the burner you want and pressed a button to FLAMETHROWER fire at all four burners. We woke up several times to find the pilot light had gone out, natural gas slowly filling the house. Neat!
I loved that stove, it was awesome. _I would never use it again._ Remember kids, older doesn't automatically equal better.
There used to be a toaster that would automatically toast your toast to the perfect doneness each time due to a sensor in the toaster you just needed to ajust it once then all you had to do is put toast in it no button pushing required.
By min 11.26 i think you could put wheels on this, and use maybe lighter modern materials!
"I don't believe in toasters" There are many reasons for toasters for bread alone, toasting the bread changes the flavor and makes it crunchy, try having regular bread dipped in egg yolk vs toast, they are night and day difference. Also other things like bagles, frozen waffles, french toast sticks, pop tarts, etc. The primary reason to toasting something is adding a crunch which changes the mouth feel of the food, I've done this with my sandwhich bread/rolls, I would put them in the oven for a few mins and they would come out as if they were freshly baked and crunchy, the flavor changes depending on if it's crunchy or soft.
Toasters are good, as is toasting bread with a fat in a pan. It depends on what you want to do with the toast
Try looking into lost car tech sometime some really cool stuff that you will never see in a modern car.
6:22 My sister says I am superfluous. She just walked up to me one day and said, "Jacob you are so superfluous." I asked her what that ment and she said "I'm not going to tell you." 😅 😂
Dude your avatar is soo expressive with the little angle the mouth makes. That's amazing and dare I say adorable gg
One second in and I'm thinking this is a Pixar princess
We had a stove with the burners on a pull-out shelf, and it was annoying, because you had to go through the kitchen to get to the family room and most of the bedrooms, and if the shelf was out, when mom was canning, you had to squeeze past it.
Also, mom needed help moving anything out of the oven, because it was on top.
The city I live in has some old stove/washer/dryer stores that were built in the 1870's & up in the backside of the store they have many of these old kinds of appliances. That mini stove refrigerator thing had a really poor description- it doesn't weigh 500 Lbs, it weighs 108 Lbs if you have everything attached. The heaviest part (the fridge+ compressor motor) is 46 Lbs by itself.
Fridge Backplate (Freon Radiator in disguise) 38 Lbs
Burner plate & Cast Iron coils 12 Lbs
Burner undercarriage 4 Lbs
Leg assembly 8 Lbs
They were (poorly) comparing it to a conventional refrigerator/freezer which usually weighed around 500-800 Lbs at the time.
Most guys wold have no issue moving this, & most women of the time wouldn't either if disassembled. Nowadays it be easier for both given all the gym memberships.
The best toasters were always Sunbeam. They spent the few extra cents to add in a infrared receiver that only saw the reflected light from the bread, not the heating elements & so they could cook any bread to perfection- not based on time, like all modern toasters, but based on the light reflected. Even refrigerated or straight out of the freezer bread sill came out as perfect toast every time.
When my grandfather was alive and running his Fish and Chip van he used a potato peeler like that... So... I think they exist for catering...
That butter bell is more likely to get moldy than a stick of butter in a regular butter dish with a lid.
Peeler.
1) cleaning time
2) counter spaces
3) my mother in law could do that with a pairing knife in bearly the same time
4) the hand peeler ... Yeah I'm not getting that potato that fast... But close.
5) when the auto jams (and it can) its a pain to fix. The manual peeler.... Tap it again the side of the sink to get rhe tiny thing thats in the hinge out
A lot of these are most likely due to how expensive it'd be to make these and how easy they would be to break. The more complex you amke something, the more components are involved which means there are points of failure for them. It's the reason we don't see cars that open up, it's the reason we don't see those weird headlights that move up and down, it's the reason convertibles are expensive, etc. Stuff breaks and people were tired of fixing them if they fixed them at all.
A combination of 3 of the 4 fridges would be perfect for me: to see the food without losing the cold + open on both sides and the plate that rotates to take the food from the bottom. Whatever the price, I'll take it if someone offers me a functional one. But I think that in Japan they already have openings on both sides for fridges.
❤Aw, Fenn, your videos always make me smile. 🤗 You have illuminated my night. ☀️
why not just square cookies
its a cooky its still good
while the roller is a mess to clean
9:40, So basically this was the predecessor to the air fryer that we can buy and put on our countertops.😂
The easiest way to answer why kitchen appliances, and many other appliances, have gotten less innovative is mass production, and trying to extract the most money with the least amount of effort.
Just got a butter bell a week ago and I'm never going back.
Also, toasted bread is vastly superior to regular bread.
I haven’t tried doing it but I’m aware there’s those apple pellers which would just spin could you use that with a potato
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You should look up a super cool and safer toaster called the sunbeam radiant control, I had to have one after I saw a video about it.
11:20 "how is this 500lbs? that there be a lead lined fridge
They still make fridges that open on both sides.
1:33 - Here I am thinking that EA Sports was the origin of the "taking awesome features away and then bring them back a decade later (not as good as before) claiming they're new...", but apparently appliances mastered this awful magic so long ago
No, it's _users_ being daft - appliances have to accommodate the lowest common denominator, including kids, pensioners, drunkards, and boomers
"what happened to kitchens?" enough people or a few people with pollical pull found a way to hurt their self and/or burn down their house so safety measures were put in which took out everything Feenryn this is cool
@@yumri4 that and to make life for more restrictive for the average joes to control their lives (like Obama when he went after wood ovens for his climate change grift).
since the butter one is the one you really want
you can just put a wineglass in a cup
Some neat stuff for sure. I will forever never peel my potatoes and always cut square cookies so there is no waste, deal with it.
100 years later: They used to have this stylish and practical device in the past, it was called 'microwave'. Why don't we have good things anymore?!
I remember seeing the video of the fridge and they were saying it was only like $800 when they forgot about inflation and how it would be like $9,000 today.
I absolutely adore your voice.
I barely use my microwave anymore. Mostly just to defrost meat and the very occasional TV dinner. Otherwise I'd rather put everything in the oven even though it takes longer.
the potato peeler also works on apples ...i have one
This video would be more impactful with Biskit.
The last one can it be it is 500£ as in the price wen it was relied instead for the weight?
The last item was probably made completely from rolled steel instead of aluminum like most appliances of today. Hence it’s 500lbs stated weight
We are probably looking at enameled cast iron. Similar to bath tubs and sinks of that era.
@@scasny oh yeah you’re right. My metallurgy was off
@@PewKittens well we talking early 1920, casting was cheaper then rolled steel and that is a oven not a fridge. Just the compressor of early fridges was that big. Also i find some photos with them open and its a oven for sure. Only around 1950-60 a thin enameled emerges. Cast iron, copper, aluminum and enameled cast iron were only option.
the most of the combos are not safe for longtime use
First time running across this VTuber and gotta say good content aside shes got quite the expressive model, the algorithm did me justice for once. That aside the reason all our stuff has become such garbage that fail basically immediately, is first due to outsourcing and poor quality controls from said outsourcing and second is due to planned obsolescence, many of those products lasted for years or even decades, hell my grandfather still has a fridge from 1947 and it still works perfectly to this day.
Suffice to say tho companies realized that if you make products that last you end up selling less products overall and thus go bankrupt, so they opted to build products that only last for X amount of time, often with proprietary parts which makes fixing/restoring them wildly expensive if you even can, thus it is cheaper for the customer to just buy a new unit instead and then the company can mark that up as another sale thus continuing production, I see the logic in said strategy but it doesn't make it any less malicious.
Edit: Well... this is awkward she basically mentioned my second point at the end, guess I should've waited before running my mouth my bad.
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Me - Hmm...
Fenn: "Why did these disappear?!"
Me, doing my best Morpheus impression: "Are you sure you want to see how deep this rabbit hole goes?" 😎
6:45 It runs Doom.
Raphtalia? Is that you?
For The Slide-Out Stove
Imagine
You Forgot To Turn It Off
I Know If This Was Made For Modern Day There Would Be A Safeguard Against That But Still
There can be a shut off switch. I think the biggest problem is when you pull out something above your chest line. You tend to tilt it towards your self. So like 3 degree burns from hot fat or boiling water on your front or spill over the hot coils and get steam burns or even ignite fire. That is why you have racks in industrial settings so you slide them from oven right on the tray.
@@scasny That Too
A lot of these fridges were likely discontinued because kids could get stuck in them
you match with your voice the same kind of vibe of this video since you sound a lot like Mrs cleaver from leave it to Beaver
the tato peelers still exist
i would still just use a knife
Twelve minutes and thirty five seconds of wife material right here
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Doesn't water have bacteria? Standing, unsealed, room temperature water.